I chose Jan Soderstrom, the new VP and CMO at SunPower, to highlight a trend that I have been noticing. As we track more and more Green companies, I am seeing a significant number of previous high tech executives crossing over into the green space. Jan has had a long career in both high tech and consumer companies. While she has been consulting for Sunpower since 2002, her addition to the Executive team at SunPower this week highlights the trend. Maybe I will put together a post with my top 10 green company crossovers one of these days.
Top 10 Executive moves:
Peter Slocum, VP Engineering at 3PAR Inc.
ex-Brocade
Saeid Ghafouri, COO at CoWare, Inc.
ex-Magma Design
Jim Scullion, CEO at DecisionView Software
ex-Tumbleweed
Matthew Powell, President and CEO at Fat Spaniel Technologies Inc.
ex-Determina, Q-layer
Bill Gossman, CEO at hi5 Networks
ex-EIR Mohr Davidow
Tom Buiocchi, Chief Marketing Officer at Panasas, Inc.
ex-Brocade
John Pierson, VP Sales and Marketing at Success Metrics / Birst
ex-Hyperion
Jan Soderstrom, VP and CMO at SunPower, Inc
ex-3com
Staffan Pehrson, President, TANDBERG Television at Tandberg Television
ex-Ericsson
Doug Klein, VP Product Marketing at ViVu
ex-Vernier, NCD
Since our last post, there have been
102 executive moves at the companies we track,
48 Executives where added at
39 companies and
54 Executives where removed from
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